Fated Traveler
Not every meeting happens in the living world.
Before their bodies were exchanged,
Ruqayyah and Aisha met in a white, silent space—
a place where words were unnecessary,
and understanding came without explanation.
There, a book was placed before them.
It did not tell the future.
It only showed that every life has a limit.
When Ruqayyah opened her eyes, she was no longer in the 21st century.
She had become Aisha binti al-Fadl,
the daughter of a powerful vizier of the Abbasid Dynasty—
a world of knowledge, politics, and hidden danger.
At the same time, Aisha awakened in the modern era,
a world without servants, rules, or walls separating what was permitted and forbidden.
Freedom, she learned, could be just as frightening.
They were given time.
But they were never promised an ending.
As history continued to move forward,
their lives became only small threads within a much larger design.
And when one story slowly reached its turning point,
another began.
Across the great Islamic dynasties that followed,
one bloodline would be called again and again—
not to change history,
not to save the world,
but to face the same question in different eras.
If your life is only one chapter in a book you cannot finish,
what choice will you make before the page turns?
